Mario Minarini

Figurative artist Mario Marini is immersed in the Florentine tradition of painting. Born and raised in Florence, Italy, the city he continues to call home, Mario started his artistic formation in the art of goldsmithery at the Florence Institute of Art where he received his diploma in 1989. An ancient artistic tradition in Florence, goldsmithery has been a crucial part of the artistic education of painters and sculptors in Florence where, for centuries, young artists received training in goldsmith workshops, developing their drawing and art composition skills. Artists like the great Renaissance masters Sandro Botticelli, Benvenuto Cellini and Donatello, all received goldsmith training as part of their artistic formation. The goldsmith’s eye for detail is clear in Mario’s figurative works, and extends into his play with light, darkness, and reflection.
Mario has had a close relationship with nature since he was a young boy, having been raised in the Tuscan countryside. Many of his landscape paintings have been dedicated to Tuscany’s hidden natural patrimony and realized en plein air.
Mario has always been deeply inspired by the Macchiaioli movement, spending his youth at the Pitti Palace in Florence, home of the Medici, studying...

2000-2005 Nude Drawing and Oil Painting Techniques; Florence Academy of Fine Arts (Accademia delle Belle Arti di Firenze)

1989 Diploma in the Art of Goldsmithery; Florence Institute of Art (Istituto d’Arte di Firenze)

2018 “Great Tuscan Masters” Palazzo Malaspina in San Donato in Poggio, sponsored by the Regional Council of Tuscany; a prestigious exhibition showcasing a selection of contemporary artworks belonging to the Regional Council of Tuscany. My work “Composition with Tureen” was showcased.

2017 Parliament of Mexico City, “Guide to Places of the Soul”, sponsored by the Florence Academy of Arts in Mexico City

2017 Palazzo Bastogi, “Memories of Tuscany” a curated by Leonardo
Nozzoli and Marco Dezzi Bardeschi, sponsored by the Regional Council of Tuscany

2016 Galeria del Centro Cultural Universitario “ La Garza “ Pachuca Mexico City

2015
-Palazzo Medici Riccardi Limonaia “Florentine Signs” with the support of the Regional Council of Tuscany, the Metropolitan City of Florence, the Music Academy of Florence, and the Ponte Vecchio Art Gallery of Florence, curators Giampiero Iacopini and Silvia La Rossa.

-Stamperia d’Arte Edi Grafica, via San Niccolò in Florence “Remembering Tamara” with the support of the Regional Council of Tuscany, the Music Academy of Florence and Ponte Vecchio Art Gallery of Florence, curators Giampiero Iacopini and Silvia La Rossa.

2014
- Lewis Elton Gallery, Guildford, England “A Florentine Painter...